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Santa Clara Pueblo Swirl Melon Jar by Linda Tafoya-Sanchez - C3779D
Category: Pottery | Posted by | Tue, Jun 14th 2016, 5:32pm
Melons were among the earliest plants to be domesticated in both the Old and New Worlds. Early European settlers in the New World are recorded as growing honeydew and casaba melons as early as the 1600s. A number of Native American tribes in New Mexico, including Acoma, Cochiti, Isleta, Navajo, Santo Domingo and San Felipe, maintain a tradition of growing their own characteristic melon cultivars, derived from melons originally introduced by the Spanish.